Thursday, 14 April 2011

Turkish Police Fail

Death To The Death Penalty

Over the Firewall and into the Fire

HA!

DREAMWEAPON: The Art and Life of Angus MacLise 1938-1979


'Angus was a dream percussionist. A dream person.' - Lou Reed
DREAMWEAPON
The Art and Life of Angus MacLise (1938 – 1979)
May 10 - May 29, 2011
curated by Johan Kugelberg and Will Swofford Cameron
DETAILS

Arizona Asshats Dept.

County Says Sheriff Joe Arpaio Spent $99 Million Inappropriately

People-watching dogs know who to ask for treats

Various - Love Letter To Japan




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about
Many of us Scottish musicians have received so much love and support over the years from friends and fans in Japan. Now we want to send some love and support back to the people of Japan. All funds from this release go to The Japanese Relief Effort.
credits
released 11 April 2011 Thank you to these fine people for all of their selfless support with this project: Barry McLuskie, John Williamson, Emma Ford, Stuart Murdoch, Frank & Stefan at Marina, Laurence Bell, Justin Barwick, Duncan Cameron at Riverside Studios, Johnny & Marshall at Blackbird Studios, Scott Blackwood, Jim Collinson, Tim Parry, Jonathan Tester, James Rushton, Jim Burns. Artwork and design by Donald Soutar Compilation mastering by Duncan Cameron at Riverside Studios.

The Global Times and Ai Weiwei

NYC’s Fleeting Moments Captured

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Mind tricks may help arthritic pain

Bradley Manning needs consular visit, mother tells William Hague

Security Fears of Wi-Fi in London Underground

The London Underground is getting Wi-Fi. Of course there are security fears:
But Will Geddes, founder of ICP Group which specialises in reducing terror or technology-related threats, said the plan was problematic. He said: "There are lots of implications in terms of terrorism and security.
"This will enable people to use their laptop on the Tube as if it was a cell phone."
Mr Geddes said there had been numerous examples of bomb attacks detonated remotely by mobile phone in Afghanistan and Iraq.
He warned a wi-fi system would enable a terror cell to communicate underground.
And he said "Trojan" or eavesdropping software could be used to penetrate users' laptops and garner information such as bank details.
Mr Geddes added: "Eavesdropping software can be found and downloaded within minutes."
This is just silly. We could have a similar conversation regarding any piece of our infrastructure. Yes, the bad guys could use it, just as they use telephones and automobiles and all-night restaurants. If we didn't deploy technologies because of this fear, we'd still be living in the Middle Ages.
@'Scneider on Security'

Julian Cope presents DETROITROCKSAMPLER


Rationals (1968) Guitar Army (3.18)
MC5 (1970) Looking at You (3.05)
Alice Cooper (1970) Long Way to Go (3.05)
The Up (1970) Together (4.23)
Amboy Dukes (1967) Journey to the Centre of the Mind (3.14)
Don & the Wanderers (1968) On the Road (2.18)
Bob Seger System (1967) Heavy Music (2.39)
Mynah Birds (1967) I’ve Got You in My Soul (2.29)
Third Power (1970) Persecution (3.25)
Detroit (1971) Rock’n’roll (5.53)
Grand Funk Railroad (1969) Inside Looking Out (9.32)
Pleasure Seekers (1966) What a Way to Die (2.14)
Unrelated Segments (1967) Story of My Life (2.38)
Terry Knight & the Pack (1967) How Much More? (2.30)
Woolies (1966) Who Do You Love? (2.00)
Underdogs (1967) Love’s Gone Bad (2.27)
SRC (1968) Black Sheep (3.47)
Flaming Ember (1967) Gotta Get Away (4.20)
Frigid Pink (1970) House of the Rising Sun (4.39)
Stooges (1970) Down on the Street (2.47)
Savage Grace (1971) All Along the Watchtower (5.41)
The Frost (1971) Rock’n’roll Music (3.00)
MC5 (1968) Borderline (3.11)
Funkadelic (1973) Cosmic Slop (3.21)
Wayne Kramer (1975) Get Some (3.38)
The New Order (1975) Declaration of War (2.48)
Ascension (1973) Get Ready (8.54)
Destroy All Monsters (1977) You’re Gonna Die (2.52)
Sonic’s Rendezvous Band (1977) City Slang (5.15)
Southbound Freeway (1967) Psychedelic Used Car Lot Blues (2.30)
Bob Seger System (1967) 2+2 (2.45)
Unrelated Segments (1967) Where You Gonna Go?
Terry Knight & the Pack (1966) Numbers (2.08)
Tidal Waves (1966) Farmer John (2.09)
The Früt (1971) Keep On Truckin’ (2.56)
? & the Mysterians (1966) Girl (2.18)
Iguanas (1965) Mona (2.39)
Stooges (1969) Asthma Attack (6.36)

stream it
HERE
(with reviews for each song!)

Third Power

The Pleasure Seekers

Don & the Wanderers

GZA, RZA, ODB 1991 Public Access


Crazy rare 1991 interview (and freestyle) featuring GZA (then doing business as the Genius), Ol' Dirty Bastard (then going by Ason Unique), and RZA (then known as Prince Rakeem) on short-lived, local Bronx public access program, Rhythm & Soul.
Via
(Thanx Luke!)

Warner Music Group Has Lost $10 Billion In 10 Years...

(Click to enlarge)

Well...

...is there?
(Thanx David!)
(...and that will teach me to marry a fellow co-worker at Dingwalls LOL!)

Jane's Addiction Work With Master Musicians of Joujouka

Jane's Addiction are back this August with a new album, which they showcased this week with new single 'End To The Lies' which, intriguingly boasts an appearance by the Master Musicians of Joujouka. You can download the track here.
Jane's Addiction, featuring original members - singer Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro and drummer Stephen Perkins - announced the collaboration on their website: "We wanted to add a sense of ancient ritual and some depth beyond normal instrumentation, getting off the typical path that rock bands use, etc,” said Perry Farrell. “And we wanted the music to cast a spell on the ‘lies.’”
New album The Great Escape Artist was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Rich Costey (Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol), with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek. Costey said the Master Musicians of Joujouka’s parts weren’t recorded with the band or in a studio: “It was all recorded in the Master Musicians Madrassa [school house] which is out in the village of Joujouka in Morocco where they live. The drums were recorded in the kitchen and the rhiatas in the main room of the house."
Farrell added: "Lots of sounds were recorded with them so you may hear more of them on the record. You'll have to wait and see."
Master Musicians of Joujouka manager and sometimes producer Frank Rynne said: "I met Jane's Addiction in 1991 backstage at the Marquee in London. They are sublime rock & rollers, musicians and artists. I am proud of the Master Musicians performance for this record and the musicians worked hard and really listened hard before they did what they always do and blasted hard trance rhiatas and funky tribal beats."
The Master Musicians recordings for Jane’s featured a 14-man lineup, many of whom will be appearing at the festival held in their home village in June, with more plans to be announced soon. For more information about that, go go here.
Richie Troughton @'The Quietus' 

Wire's Graham Lewis On Cupol & The Master Musicians Of Joujouka

I was at a couple of the Commonwealth Institute shows that Graeme Lewis talks about too and the freebie one they did in the park and I still have my copy of the programme from where the photo above comes from...

PJ Crowley Criticizes Pentagon for Denying UN Visit to Bradley Manning

Former State Department spokesman PJ Crowley isn’t stepping back his criticism of the Pentagon’s treatment of Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning. Crowley was fired last month after calling Manning’s treatment – which includes being stripped nude nightly and existing in almost complete isolation – “ridiculous, counterproductive, and stupid.”
On Twitter last night, Crowley renewed his campaign against the Pentagon’s torture of Manning. In two tweets, Crowley contrasted the State Department’s push for human rights for an American held by North Korea with the Pentagon’s decision to “play by its own rules” in denying the UN Special Rappoteur on Torture an official visit with Bradley Manning.
While Crowley seeks to contrast State vs. DOD, both are to blame. It’s clear from the State Department briefing with Crowley’s acting replacement that the United States is having a hard time differentiating itself from China with regards to human rights and detention policies. State claims to be completely forthcoming about UN visits to Manning, yet it still hides behind the Bush-era defense of “ongoing legal proceedings” to not discuss why it’s complicit in denying the UN an official visit to Manning.
It’s hard to imagine Crowley continuing to go rogue in contrasting State with the Pentagon; clearly, the State Department wants to Pentagon to take the blame for Manning’s torture, and it’s open warfare in the media right now.
That said, Marine rules clearly state that “official visits” are allowed to prisoners at Quantico brig. The Pentagon and Quantico should follow its own rules and allow official visits to Manning.
Sign our letter to Quantico and Pentagon leaders: follow your own rules and allow official visits to PFC. Bradley Manning. Click here to add your name.
Michael Whitney @'FDL'
Glenn Greenwald
Bradley Manning currently in 8th place in TIME 100 poll - vote here:

HA! (For Longy!)

"Hello IT Support" 
"I've lost access to the net" 
"Ok can I ask your name please sir?"
"Fernando Torres"

Danger

Billie Ray Martin - Sold Life (Luke Solomon Remix)

♪♫ Señor Coconut - We Are The Robots/Man Machine

Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Cyber Informer
Five U.S. nuclear plants in : [homelandsecuritynewswire] active U.S. the...
Networks of Power, Degrees of Freedom
Thomas Wuil Joo - A Contrarian View of Copyright: Hip-Hop, Sampling, and Semiotic Democracy
(PDF)
Never trust a banker..... ever!

Has BP really cleaned up the Gulf oil spill?

I ♥ Japan

Via

A Plague Of Soars - Warps In The Fabric Of Pop

Kompakt Benefit Compilation for Japan

From German label Kompakt comes another benefit compilation that is meant to help the victims of the recent Tsunami in Japan. It is filled with music from 30 labels, including prestigious names such as Raster-Noton, Dial Records, Bpitch Control, Ostgut Ton and -of course- Kompakt.
To get you convinced, a mere look at the tracklist might be enough. Otherwise you can stream the entire compilation below.

01. Marsen Jules Trio – OEillet Parfait
02. Ezekiel Honig – Past Tense Kitchen Movement
03. Jahcoozi – Lost In The Bass
04. Space System – Petik
05. Greie Gut Fraktion – Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt (Wolfgang Voigt Remix)
06. Manaboo – Unhuh
07. Efdemin – Time
08. Antonelli – Waiting For You
09. André Lodemann Feat. Nathalie Claude – Searchin’
10. Lawrence – Dwelling On The Drums
11. Michael Mayer – Picanha Frenesi
12. Nhar – Megumi
13. Xaver von Treyer – Lunar Rover (The Wolf Song)
14. Cosmic Kids – Reginald’s Groove
15. My Favorite Robot – The Future Will Judge Us
16. Kaito – Open My Window
17. Audision – Red Sky
18. Monkey Maffia – Yo Baby Yo
19. Nick Höppner – Makeover
20. Gowentgone – Love & Respect
21. Glitterbug – Parted
22. SCSI-9 – Electric Flowers
23. Dusty Kid – America
24. Tassilo – Petite Patate
25. Davenport & Deutschmann – Trump
26. Mr. Statik – Smoothest Cat On The Block!
27. Someone Else – Funny Day Elsewhere
28. Ana Helder – El Groove De Tu Corazón
29. Anne – James Chaton – Vendredi 26 Juin 2009 – Événement N°23
30. Borngräber & Strüver – People Crying
31. Metaboman – Stony
32. Maya Jane Coles – You
33. Dj Olive – Kokanee’s Drop
34. Out Of Plato’s Cave – Rainbow For Dawn Shane Berry’s Rainbow for Japan
You can get yourself the download for only €7.99 over at Bandcamp
@'nutriot'

Is Fukushima really as bad as Chernobyl?

Robyn Hitchcock - Light Blue Afternoon / Dismal City (2011)


Light Blue Afternoon
Dismal City

Both tracks taken from "Tromsø, Kaptein" - Robyn Hitchcock's forthcoming album on Hype City. To be released in Norway April 8th on LP and CD. Produced by Paul Noble, the "Tromsø, Kaptein" features 8 new RH compositions as well as a re-recording of 'Raining Twilight Coast' from EYE and a new Norwegian language version of Goodnight Oslo.

Gene Chandler - Does She Have A Friend (Zimmer Edit)

HA! (Check Billie Ray Martin's comment @ 0:44)

SF to Paris in Two Minutes

HA! ('...when I were a lad')

At Last The 1948 Show

南三陸町志津川高校から見た津波の様子

♪♫ Vince Taylor - Shakin' All Over

Heroin overdose antidote should be given to prisoners, ministers told